Week 5: Production diary

This week has been all about analysing and comparing magazine features. We have to discuss the different conventions about our target audience and how effective it is. The task we had to do was good and helped me with my magazine cover as it showed me what I should be looking for when I am analysis for cover.

Five Things I would change

These are my five targets of what I could improve on next time when I reach my final production; these targets are a result of my preliminary task and what I could improve on.

1. I would improve on how I would go about the publication as I would do a lot more research and have a lot of other work, with extra evaulation and more research into the publication. Maybe create some questions for people to answer and see what my public audeince would like.

2. I would change the style and the way I desgined it as that was a key things I wasnt to pleased with as I do think it needs some work and could be added towards, This would work towards both front cover and Content page is it would allow me to work on them more and have a better understanding of them.

3. Changing the colours would allow me to work with different colours and maybe appeal to a more larger audience, this would also mean that i would be able to have a lot more different types of colour combonations. Having all these different types of colours would allow me to have a better understanding of how differnt colours work togther.

4. The images, where not the best and could of used some work as it would allow me to create better images and have different types of people and also have a larger scale appeal to more people as i might be able to focus on a certain group of people like teacher, as students might want to read a story on a teacher that they like maybe understanding the teacher a lot more.

5. I would change the way I went about the whole publication as it would allow me to be able to creat a lot of differet work and be able to create better front cover and not to rush a lot of my work, which would allow me to have more time and create a better and more appealing publication which would have a larger impact on the audience.

Photos for my school publication

These are the pictures I took for my publication as I needed images. These pictures all helped me get a good idea of what type of publication I would be doing as it would allow me to be a lot more. This would mean that I am able to have a great idea of what kind of publication I can do and what kind of design I can work with.

Font chart

The font style I ended up using was more of a simple and bolder style as it let me be able to have many different types of style in my publication, The style of font also allowed me to be able to have a lot of different appeal and allow me to be able to work with a simply yet effective type of style which would allow me to appeal to the many different types of audeinces as it was such a basic style. However I did try out different types of font as it would mean that, I was able to see what kind of font would work and what wouldnt, This would also allow me to be able to see what needed to be changed and what I would be able to do with my different types of fonts that I wanted to try out.

Colour scheme

The colour scheme, I choice was difficult as I wanted to choice colours that would blend well togther but still work togther and appeal to the audience. This would also have them be able to be attracted to the cover of the magazine and have it more appealing to them, I choice for bright colours and experemented with a lot of different colours as it would allow me to see what colours would work well togther and see what kind of colours need to be inproved, I choice in the end a bright green colour as it would mean that it stands out and I can have it work well with other brighter colours as the lime green can be blended with almost every other colour.

Front Cover and Content Page Finished

This is the complete front page and Content page of my School magazine, The style is a bit different from what i had planned in for the drafts however, The color scheme and others like the font and style has stayed the same as it would allow me to make it simply and yet still have a lot of style in it. This would allow me to make it like i want but still applying to the audience. This would also have it be on a larger scale and have the style still appeal to the audience. This would have the audience attracted to the magazine and the way it is layed out as it wouldnt be to crouwd and have the person to distracted from the stories on the page. If there isnt a lot of on the page then they are able to focus on the page and what is on it, instead of trying to see what kind of story looks appealing to them and what story they want to read instead of reading the storys that are really there.